Labrador Inuit on the Hunt: Seasonal Patterns, Techniques, and Animals as They Appear in the Early Moravian Diaries
In 1769 an Order in Council from the British government enabled the Moravians to settle in Labrador. The missionaries laid the boundary stones for their land (ca. 405 km2) in the next year, and established their first mission station (Nain) on the Labrador coast in 1771. The brethren’s accounts of t...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:50|dedup_wf_001::69f9521ad3885c2afc33b12a0f1ea063 2023-05-15T16:54:45+02:00 Labrador Inuit on the Hunt: Seasonal Patterns, Techniques, and Animals as They Appear in the Early Moravian Diaries Thea Olsthoorn 2019-07-09 http://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/etudinuit/2017-v41-n1-2-etudinuit04714/1061436ar.pdf https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1061436ar https://doi.org/10.7202/1061436ar https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/etudinuit/2017-v41-n1-2-etudinuit04714/1061436ar/ https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2960237765 en eng Centre interuniversitaire d’études et de recherches autochtones (CIÉRA) http://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/etudinuit/2017-v41-n1-2-etudinuit04714/1061436ar.pdf https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1061436ar http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1061436ar https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/etudinuit/2017-v41-n1-2-etudinuit04714/1061436ar/ https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2960237765 undefined oai:erudit.org:1061436ar 10.7202/1061436ar 2960237765 10|opendoar____::16e6a3326dd7d868cbc926602a61e4d0 10|openaire____::081b82f96300b6a6e3d282bad31cb6e2 10|issn___print::3d62932779cd9e4bfb5e9b87e53a8d92 10|openaire____::8ac8380272269217cb09a928c8caa993 10|openaire____::5f532a3fc4f1ea403f37070f59a7a53a Sciences Humaines et Sociales Social Sciences and Humanities Moravians Inuit Labrador hunting animals Moraves chasse animaux General Arts and Humanities General Social Sciences geo litt Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2019 fttriple https://doi.org/10.7202/1061436ar 2023-01-22T17:22:18Z In 1769 an Order in Council from the British government enabled the Moravians to settle in Labrador. The missionaries laid the boundary stones for their land (ca. 405 km2) in the next year, and established their first mission station (Nain) on the Labrador coast in 1771. The brethren’s accounts of their experiences with the Inuit in the Nain diaries include, besides religious issues, weather and travel reports and descriptions of Inuit hunting grounds and hunting techniques for the fauna of the region. This article focuses on their diary depictions of the two main prey species: the seal and the caribou. Consideration is also given to seasonal variation and availability of these animals during the early years of the mission; data were collected for the years 1771 through 1778. Several clues in the Moravian diaries, which went unrecognized by the missionaries, point to interactions and transformations between human and nonhuman beings (animals, spirits). These indications corroborate the spiritual transgression of category boundaries as an essential feature of traditional hunting methods. En 1769, un décret du gouvernement britannique permit aux frères Moraves de s’installer au Labrador. Les missionnaires posèrent des bornes de pierre autour de leur terre l’année suivante (environ 405 km2), et établirent leur première station missionnaire (Nain) sur la côte du Labrador, en 1771. Les récits de ces frères concernant leurs expériences avec les Inuit dans les carnets de Nain incluent, outre les questions religieuses, les bulletins météorologiques et de voyage, ainsi que les descriptions des terrains de chasse des Inuit et des techniques de chasse de la faune régionale. Cet article porte sur les descriptions que l’on retrouve dans leurs carnets, des deux principales espèces de proies : le phoque et le caribou. Il rend compte également des variations saisonnières et de la disponibilité de ces animaux au cours des premières années de la mission les données ont été recueillies pour les années 1771 à 1778. Plusieurs ... Article in Journal/Newspaper inuit Nain Unknown Nain ENVELOPE(-61.695,-61.695,56.542,56.542) Études Inuit Studies 41 1-2 125 149 |
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In 1769 an Order in Council from the British government enabled the Moravians to settle in Labrador. The missionaries laid the boundary stones for their land (ca. 405 km2) in the next year, and established their first mission station (Nain) on the Labrador coast in 1771. The brethren’s accounts of their experiences with the Inuit in the Nain diaries include, besides religious issues, weather and travel reports and descriptions of Inuit hunting grounds and hunting techniques for the fauna of the region. This article focuses on their diary depictions of the two main prey species: the seal and the caribou. Consideration is also given to seasonal variation and availability of these animals during the early years of the mission; data were collected for the years 1771 through 1778. Several clues in the Moravian diaries, which went unrecognized by the missionaries, point to interactions and transformations between human and nonhuman beings (animals, spirits). These indications corroborate the spiritual transgression of category boundaries as an essential feature of traditional hunting methods. En 1769, un décret du gouvernement britannique permit aux frères Moraves de s’installer au Labrador. Les missionnaires posèrent des bornes de pierre autour de leur terre l’année suivante (environ 405 km2), et établirent leur première station missionnaire (Nain) sur la côte du Labrador, en 1771. Les récits de ces frères concernant leurs expériences avec les Inuit dans les carnets de Nain incluent, outre les questions religieuses, les bulletins météorologiques et de voyage, ainsi que les descriptions des terrains de chasse des Inuit et des techniques de chasse de la faune régionale. Cet article porte sur les descriptions que l’on retrouve dans leurs carnets, des deux principales espèces de proies : le phoque et le caribou. Il rend compte également des variations saisonnières et de la disponibilité de ces animaux au cours des premières années de la mission les données ont été recueillies pour les années 1771 à 1778. Plusieurs ... |
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Labrador Inuit on the Hunt: Seasonal Patterns, Techniques, and Animals as They Appear in the Early Moravian Diaries |
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Labrador Inuit on the Hunt: Seasonal Patterns, Techniques, and Animals as They Appear in the Early Moravian Diaries |
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